The colour of our future : does race matter in post-apartheid South Africa? / edited by Xolela Mangcu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mangcu, Xolela, 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--South Africa.

Social change.

Educational change--South Africa.

Educational change.

Post-apartheid era--South Africa.

Post-apartheid era.

Equality--South Africa.

Equality.

South Africans--Race identity.

South Africans.

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2015.

Summary:

South Africa is ready for a new vocabulary than can form the basis for a national consciousness which recognises racialised identities while affirming that, as human beings, we are much more than our racial, sexual, class, religious or national identities. The Colour of Our Future makes a bold and ambitious contribution to the discourse on race. It addresses the tension between the promise of a post-racial society and the persistence of racialised identities in South Africa, which has historically played itself out in debates between the 'I don't see race' of non-racialism and the 'I'm proud to be black' of black consciousness. The chapters in this volume highlight the need for a race-transcendent vision that moves beyond 'the festival of negatives' embodied in concepts such as non-racialism, non-sexism, anti-colonialism and anti-apartheid. Steve Biko's notion of a 'joint culture' is the scaffold on which this vision rests; it recognises that a race-transcendent society can only be built by acknowledging the constituent elements of South Africa's EuroAfricanAsian heritage. The distinguished authors in this volume have, over the past two decades, used the democratic space to insert into the public domain new conversations around the intersections of race and the economy, race and the state, race and the environment, race and ethnic difference, and race and higher education. Presented here is some of their most trenchant and yet still evolving thinking.

Contents:

What moving beyond race can actually mean: towards a joint culture / Xolela Mangcu

The colour of our past and present: the evolution of human skin pigmentation / Nina G Jablonski

Races, racialised groups and racial identity: perspectives from South Africa and the United States / Lawrence Blum

The Janus face of the past: preserving and resisting South African path independence / Steven Friedman

How black is the future green in South Africa's urban future? / Mark Swilling

Inequality in democratic South Africa / Vusi Gumede

Interrogating the concept and dynamics of race in public policy / Joel Netshitenzhe

Why I am no longer a non-racialist: identity and difference / Suren Pillay

Interrogating transformation in South African higher education / Crain Soudien

The black innterpreters and the arch of history / Hlonipha Mokoena.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018).

ISBN:

9781868149100

1868149102

9781868146239

1868146235

OCLC:

959865027